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Richard J. Evans: Eugenics in Germany, 11 September 2025
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s 20th Century
by Dagmar Herzog.
Princeton, 312 pp., £30, November 2024,978 0 691 26170 6 Show More
by Dagmar Herzog.
Princeton, 312 pp., £30, November 2024,
“... at improving the quality of the population.Not all Germans supported it. The American historian Dagmar Herzog points out in her new book that the Catholic Church, to which more than a third of Germans belonged, was opposed to eugenics and to ‘euthanasia’: ‘life was to be protected from the moment of conception through to a natural death.’ This ... ”
